Quotes About Serenity

Nobody said anything. Dust motes floated in a sunbeam.

It was a beautiful night, full moon, the meadow like silver and the housefronts throwing square black shadows sharp as cutouts on the grass.

Behind tranquillity lies conquered unhappiness.

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

Deep red hollyhocks pressed against the limestone wall and velvet butterflies flopped lazily from flower to flower. It was Tennyson weather, drowsy, warm, unnaturally still.

But one thing is sure -I had a feeling of immense content and, if I thought at all, it was that I'd like this to go on, no-one going, no-one coming, autumn and winter always loitering around the corner, summer's ripeness lasting for ever, nothing disturbing the even tenor of my way (as I think someone may have said before me).

Il n'y a pas de plus grande émotion que d'entrer dans le désert.

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

Though on dry land Joey D seemed as if he were on the verge of a nervous breakdown, at sea he was an expert relaxer. On cue he could release all the tension in his muscles and bob along like a jellyfish—a 260-pound Irish jellyfish. I watched his face as he floated, a mask of pure serenity I'd never witnessed on any man. Then his face became still more serene, and I realized that he must be peeing.

I will not worry about something that will not happen.

And this, our life exempt from public haunts, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. -Thomas Carlyle

Ever felt an angel's breath in the gentle breeze? A teardrop in the falling rain? Hear a whisper amongst the rustle of leaves? Or been kissed by a lone snowflake? Nature is an angel's favorite hiding place. -Terri Guillemets

Can't you see that it's just raining? There ain't no need to go outside.

you don't always have to hold your head higher than your heart

There is no higher happiness than peace.

Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.

If you expect your life to be up and down, your mind will be much more peaceful.

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather around us, that they may see their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer perhaps even a fiercer life because of our quiet. William Butler Yeats

Equanimity embraces the loved and the unloved, the agreeable and the disagreeable, the pleasure and pain. It eliminates clinging and aversion.

To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.

Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.

When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.

If we learn to be aware of feelings without grasping or aversion, then they can move through us like changing weather, adn we can be free to feel them and move on like the wind.